Market research & signal discovery

Trade the mechanism, not the narrative.

Whalur hunts for repeatable, statistically significant market mechanisms — behaviors that produce positive expected value across many securities and market conditions — and turns them into ranked, explainable signals.

  • Every signal is scored by historical expected value — not win rate, hype, or gut feel.
  • Thousands of hypothesis variations tested against historical replays before anything goes live.
  • Only mechanisms that survive robustness testing across regimes, sectors, and volatility ever reach you.

Plans from $79.99/month. Whale Watch, Whale Moves and Markets are free to read.

The engine room

Nine research engines behind every signal.

Whalur isn't a list of hot tips. Every idea is tested on years of real market history, then judged on recent data it has never seen, and almost everything gets thrown out. What survives is what you see.

25M+simulated trades on real market history
9,000+trading ideas written and tested
97%of new ideas thrown out for failing on unseen data
11+ yrsof daily prices across 80+ stocks & ETFs

AI Idea Generator

Writes brand-new trading ideas every night.

Discovery Engine

Invents and tests ideas around the clock, and keeps only the ones that still work on data they've never seen.

Backtest Sweeper

Re-tests every idea against every stock, every night.

Rabbit Hole Digger

An AI analyst that digs into the best ideas to find exactly where they work.

Regime Analyzer

Checks how every idea behaves in calm markets and fearful ones.

Live Monitor

Fires a whale move the moment a tested idea triggers on a real stock.

Recent Edge Scanner

Re-tests every idea on the last 12 months, so you see what's working right now.

Prediction Engine

Calls the week ahead for every stock, then grades itself against what actually happened.

Hunch Tester New

Type any market hunch in plain words and get an honest verdict: real, maybe, or luck.

New · Hunch Tester

Got a hunch about the market? Test it in a minute.

Type it in plain words: “when oil crashes, banks rally the next week.” Our AI analyst turns it into one fair test, locks the rules before it looks, runs it on 25 years of real prices (back to 2000), then checks it again on 2025–26 data it never used. Most hunches turn out to be luck. Now you'll know which ones aren't.

  • No cherry-picking. The test is set before any results exist.
  • The luck check. Every result is compared with randomly timed trades.
  • A second opinion from the future. It must hold on data it never saw.
—Tested Hunches
—survived both checks

Latest hunches

  • “When the 2-year yield jumps in a week, bank stocks rise the following week.”no effect
What's inside

See the whales for free. Trade them with a plan.

A whale move is our name for a signal: big investors ("whales" — funds and institutions) can't buy or sell without leaving footprints, like a burst of trading volume or a sharp push in price, and Whalur's tested strategies watch for those footprints and for market conditions such as VIX fear or swings in rates and oil. When one fires on a stock, that's a whale move.

Whale Watch, Whale Moves and Markets are open to everyone. A plan unlocks the research engine behind them — plans start at $79.99 a month.

Free to read

Whale Watch

Every morning, the three highest-conviction whale moves the monitor caught overnight — what moved, how big, and Whalur's verdict.

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Free to read

Whale Moves

Every signal the live monitor detects is written up and published the second it fires, with the evidence behind it.

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Markets

The macro backdrop the research runs against — VIX regime, rates and the curve, the dollar, gold, oil and bitcoin.

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Every plan

AI hypothesis generator

Tell the model what to hunt for — VIX spikes, gold shocks, news chatter, reversals on minute bars — and it drafts testable hypotheses for you.

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Every plan

Backtests & rankings

Run any hypothesis across the whole universe and see expected value per trade, consistency and trade frequency — then the ranked table of what actually works.

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Premium + Wallet

Paper-trading wallet

Arm a strategy and let it trade a paper portfolio on live signals, with real P&L tracked against the S&P — live trading is next.

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The problem

Most trading “edges” are opinions in a costume.

You've felt it: a setup that worked twice becomes a strategy, a pundit's conviction becomes your position, and a backtest tuned to one lucky year becomes your account's worst month.

Noise dressed as signal

News, chart patterns, and hot takes feel actionable, but few survive honest measurement. Trading them is paying for randomness.

Overfit backtests

A strategy optimized on one stock in one regime collapses the moment conditions change. Curve-fitting isn't research — it's rehearsal for a loss.

Win rate worship

A 70% win rate with ugly losers still bleeds money. The only number that compounds in your favor is expected value — and almost nobody measures it.

The solution

Whalur asks a better question.

Not “what stock should I buy?” but “what measurable market behavior is occurring right now, and what has history demonstrated is the highest-expected-value response?”

A teal sonar ping illuminating glowing candlestick bars deep underwater while a whale silhouette glides past above

Mechanism discovery

A hypothesis engine generates and evaluates thousands of parameterized strategy variations — order-flow continuation, exhaustion, liquidity imbalance, mean reversion, and more — against historical market replays.

Robustness before deployment

Candidate mechanisms must hold up across bull and bear markets, sectors, market caps, volatility regimes, and execution-cost assumptions. Whatever fails is discarded — before it costs anyone money.

Ranked, explainable signals

Live signals arrive with a confidence score, the historical EV of similar setups, and the reasoning behind them — so you always know why, not just what.

How it works

From raw market behavior to a signal you can trust.

  1. Observe

    Whalur continuously measures a curated research universe of ~60 representative stocks: relative volume, VWAP distance, liquidity, persistence, volatility, and dozens of other reusable features.

  2. Hypothesize & test

    The hypothesis engine runs each candidate mechanism through historical replays — long and short, multiple entries and exits, position-management variants — and measures expected value, not anecdotes.

  3. Stress

    Survivors are re-tested across market cycles, sectors, capitalizations, and cost assumptions. Only mechanisms that stay positive everywhere advance to live monitoring.

  4. Signal & learn

    Validated mechanisms are monitored in real time. Every alert is scored, explained, archived, and fed back into research — so the system gets sharper with every trade it observes.

A whale diving down through layered ocean currents dotted with faint candlestick bars — mechanisms stress-tested across market regimes
Built like research, not like a tip sheet

Statistical evidence over intuition. Always.

Whalur's guiding principles are non-negotiable: expected value over win rate, robustness over optimization, repeatability over isolated success, and universal mechanisms over ticker-specific folklore.

“Rather than asking what stock to buy, we ask what measurable behavior is happening right now — and what history says is the highest-EV response.”

— The Whalur research charter
A whale tail breaking a calm night ocean beneath a rising arc of glowing signal beacons
1,000s hypothesis variations evaluated per mechanism
~60 stocks in the initial research universe
100% of live signals archived for future research

Our promise: no signal ships until its mechanism has survived robustness testing — and every live signal is tracked against its historical expectations, in the open, inside your dashboard.

FAQ

Fair questions, straight answers.

Is Whalur a stock-picking service?

No. Whalur is a research platform that discovers and validates market mechanisms. When those mechanisms fire in live markets, you get ranked, explained signals — the evidence, not just a ticker.

What does “expected value over win rate” actually mean?

A strategy that wins 40% of the time can be highly profitable if winners outweigh losers. Whalur measures the average outcome per trade across many samples — the number that actually compounds — instead of chasing high win rates that hide fat losses.

What's a whale move?

A whale move is our name for a signal: big investors ("whales" — funds and institutions) can't buy or sell without leaving footprints, like a burst of trading volume or a sharp push in price, and Whalur's tested strategies watch for those footprints and for market conditions such as VIX fear or swings in rates and oil. When one fires on a stock, that's a whale move. Every whale move is published on the free Whale moves page, and the three most confident each day make up the Whale Watch email.

Does Whalur trade for me?

The roadmap includes Alpaca integration for paper trading and automated execution with position sizing and risk controls. Execution always remains driven by validated research — never discretionary calls.

What does it cost?

Whale Watch, Whale moves and Markets are free to read. Full access is a plan: Basic $79.99/month, Premium $149.99/month (unlimited AI), or Premium + Wallet $199.99/month (adds paper-trading wallets). See pricing.

Is this financial advice?

No. Whalur provides research and statistical measurements of market behavior. All trading involves risk, and you are responsible for your own decisions.

The daily email

Whale Watch: the day's top three, every morning.

One email a day. The three highest-conviction whale moves the monitor detected, what Whalur's call on each one is, and a link straight to the full entry, stop and target. Three moves and the calls behind them — nothing else.

Free, no card. Every issue is also public at its own address, so you can read one before you subscribe. Tell us to stop and we will.

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